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On Dec. 13, at Eastern Elementary perfect attendance students from November were rewarded for having perfect attendance. All the students who had perfect attendance for the month of November spent time enjoying obstacle courses and other fun activities throughout the day. Each month Eastern Elementary recognizes students with perfect attendance. Students were able to walk a mile with Principal Sharon Bright in October. The rewards are part of a continuing effort at Eastern to promote Healthy Habits for the students

Heading into halftime, the Henry County Lady Cats led in-county rival Eminence 18-16. Taking the court at halftime, the Lady Cats used a stingy, stifling defense to come away with a 33-19 win.

The Lady Cats outscored Eminence 11-2 in the third period to effectively put the game away.

Henry County opened with full-court pressure defense and forced the Warriors to turn the ball over on their first seven possessions of the game. But the Lady Cats squandered extra chances and led only 4-0 with less than 5 minutes to go in the period.

Three days after they came from behind to defeat their in-county rivals, the Eminence Warriors almost pulled off another come-from-behind victory, this time against Trimble County.

But the Warriors were one 3-point bomb shy of completing the comeback, and the Raiders came out with a 67-64 win.

Eminence built a nice lead with a 13-2 run to open the game only to see it fall as Trimble fought their way back into it. Eventually the Raiders would lead by 10 points, at 32-22, and lead by 8 at the half.

The Wildcats started slow on Saturday night against visiting Shawe High School of Madison, but turned the game around in the second quarter and then pulled away in the fourth quarter to get a 13-point victory.

Brad West got hot from 3-point range, with 5 long-range bombs, and led the Cats with 18 points. Dakota Estes hit one 3-pointer as the Cats had a season high six 3-pointers in the game.

Four young men from Henry County are competing at the collegiate level in a sport that doesn’t get much sports page coverage — shotgun. Jacob Yount, Connor Toole, Jordan Campbell and Garrett Black all are competing on the University of Kentucky shotgun team in their freshman year in Lexington.

All four competed for several years on the highly successful Henry County 4-H youth shooting teams and now they have taken the skills they learned as boys to the next level.

Last week, I had the chance to attend the Commodity Day of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Annual meeting in Louisville. State and national experts discuss new findings and directions for a variety of farm enterprises through short conferences through the day. I was able to attend the tobacco conference, the economic outlook conference and the forage conference. Other well attended offerings were: dairy, equine, feed grains, beef, horticulture, forestry and natural resources.